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Throughout the summer, we are pleased to offer a series of instructional sessions for Faculty of law RAs and Graduate Students. The sessions will be held on Tuesdays and Thursdays, between 11:00am-12:00pm in the Library training room P363 (exceptions are in red below). These sessions will each cover a different research topic:

Charles Viner spent 50 years summarizing cases from previously published case law reporters. The case digests (in 23 volumes) are organized alphabetically by subject covering all aspects of the law as it was at the time of publication. Although its accuracy and utility have been questioned, (see e.g. J. G. Marvin’s summary of comments on the Abridgment in Legal Bibliography, Or a Thesaurus of American, English, Irish, and Scotch Law Books) nevertheless it is still a very useful starting point for legal historians.

The library has a complete set on reserve and although the binding is fragile, despite its age (the imprint date on the first volume is 1741), the paper is sturdy and the text is readable.

Viner’s legacy also lives on in the Vinerian Professorship of English Law at Oxford University which he endowed on his death in 1755. The first Vinerian Professor was Sir William Blackstone.

This is an annual publication which provides the text of, and annotates, each section of the Indian Act, and various other statutes and regulations, with summaries of cases that have considered each section. It also includes summaries of selected Supreme Court of Canada Cases relating to Aboriginal law and Indigenous peoples from 1995 onwards.